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Wow, you are such an example of a helpful Wikipedian Piotrus!
I appreciate the welcome, and thank you for your awesome contributions to the Wikipedia effort--thanks again!
216.38.130.164 (talk) 21:59, 9 November 2010
WikiProject Sociology Newsletter: III (December 2010)
According to our April mini-census, we have 15 active members, 6 semi-active ones and 45 inactive. Out of those, 4 active, 3 semi-active and 1 inactive members have added themselves to corresponding categories since the mini-census. The next one is planned, roughly, for sometime next year. The membership list has been kept since 2004.
On that note, nobody has ever studied WikiProjects from the sociological perspective... if you are interesting in researching Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Research and wiki-research-l listerv.
Moving from research to teaching, did you know that many teachers and instructors are teaching classes with Wikipedia? This idea is getting support from the Wikimedia Foundation, and some really useful tools have been created recently. I have experience with that, having taught several undergad classes, so feel free to ask me questions on that!
And as long as I am talking about professional issues, if any of you is going to any sociological conferences, do post that to our project - perhaps other members are going there too?
In other news: the a automated to do listing reported in the April issue went down shortly afterwards, but seems to be on the path to reactivation. We still have an active tag and assess project, and comparing the numbers to the April report, we have identified about 350 more sociology-related articles (from 1,800 to 2,150) and assessed about 100 (from 1,300 to 1,400).
We now have a listing of most popular sociology-related pages. It is updated on the 1st of every month, starting with August, and reports which of our sociology-tagged articles are most frequently read. Of course, GIGO holds true, so after looking at it right now and trying to determine what is our most popular article, my first action was to shake my head and remove Criminal Minds (which, perhaps not too surprisingly, outranks all sociology articles in period tested). Second item I noticed it this month's Industrial Revolution, beating Criminal Minds, that moved from close to 30th position in August/September, to 9th in October and 2nd in November. If you'd like to discuss this or any other trends, please visit WT:SOCIOLOGY!
Finally, with the reactivation of Article Alerts, we are getting our own here. Bookmark that page so you can keep track of sociology related deletion debates, move debates, good and feature article discussions, and more.
Hello. Thank you for your interesting. Sociology is one of the topics I'm interesting. So I'm interesting in receiving any newsletter from it, but not to make any article edit in en wikipedia for the near future. But I read some of them and I'm thinking about traslare some topics fot the el: wikipedia.
Vchorozopoulos (talk) 23:47, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
czolem Piotrusiu :)
nie wiem jak zmienic tutul artykulu - a napisalem wstepny artykul o bitwie pod Lubrzem po angielsku http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batle_of_Lubrze , a z jakis powodow jest 'batle' zamiast 'battle' - pomocy prosze! — Preceding unsigned comment added by DarioTW (talk • contribs) 22:53, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks - but after few attempts at rescuing Adam Mickiewicz from a colossal OR - it seems that reason escapes some of the editors on enwiki. My limited time is too precious for me to get involved in emotional debates devoid of logic. And I thought that plwiki is sometimes hard to work with. By the way - is the Polish-Lithuanian adjective spilling into Polish-Belarussian, Polish-Ukrainian and so on, or is it only specific to Lithuanian socio-political geography? yours, --Emanek (talk) 09:15, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
well, I am not so sure about the 'advacement' on enwiki.I just took a slow walk through certain subjects or bios - people like Narutowicz and so on (in regards to the comical disputes about Mickiewicz) - I can only say that I have found it bemusing at best. Anyhow - it may be the nature of the beast (wikipedia). best of luck, --Emanek (talk) 07:29, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
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We have reached the end of the year, and what a year it has been! The Guild of Copy Editors was full of activity, and we achieved numerous important milestones in 2010. Read all about these in the Guild's 2010 Year-End Report.
Highlights
Membership grows to 503 editors
2,589 articles removed through four Backlog elimination drives
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